Scholar-Activist Terrain in Canada and Ireland

Research in progress in English and history in Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

Responding to Migrant and Refugee Healthcare Needs in Ireland

Human migration, both voluntary and precipitated by conflict and persecution, continues to pose challenges to the healthcare infrastructure of host countries. The scale of international migration to Ireland has increased substantially in recent years. Both economic migrants and refugees have complex health needs including those related to infectious diseases, malnourishment, gender-specific iss...

Activist capitals in network societies: Towards a typology for studying networking power within contemporary activist demands

Network societies are characterized by social media, media that are supposed to level out power hierarchies, making political participation more inclusive and equal. By developing a typology for studying networking power within activist demands in network societies, such technooptimistic/deterministic assumptions are questioned. This typology is based on Bourdieu’s conceptual framework of socia...

Scholar-in-Training Awards

The AACR is proud to offer Scholar-in-Training Awards to enable the participation of meritorious early-career scientists at the Annual Meeting 2017. Since its inception in 1986, the AACR Annual Meeting Scholar-in-Training Award program has provided more than 4,400 grants to young investigators and has received support from more than 50 cancer research foundations, corporations, individuals and ...

Colonialism and the truncation of science in Ireland and French Canada during the nineteenth century.